Radar · Educational Support Services in Uttar Pradesh
Best Educational Support Services Companies in Uttar Pradesh, India
The 39 best Educational Support Services companies in Uttar Pradesh, India in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Cengage India.
By Riya SenguptaFinancials
39companies tracked
$525.7Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
2have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES × UTTAR PRADESH
Our analysis of 50 Educational Support Services companies
$6.7b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
50companies analysed
93%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
2004median founding year
51median Fliar Index™
130kcombined LinkedIn audience
84%of audience held by top 3
6companies hiring publicly (12 mo)
Ranked: Best Educational Support Services companies in Uttar Pradesh
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cengage India Provider of educational content, digital learning platforms, and test preparation materials 62Innovation top 20%Product top 26%Funding top 28%Market top 41% All 11 signals ▾Innovationtop 20% Producttop 26% Fundingtop 28% Markettop 41% Fin. healthtop 44% Growthtop 47% Globalbottom 45% Moatbottom 38% Techbottom 36% Customersbottom 35% Newsbottom 27% Innovation: 4 product lines Product: 4 distinct product lines · 3 published apps (370k installs) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $525M | 39 mo ago | Series D | — | 2011 | UbuntuBootstrapAlertifyJS+12 | — |
| 2 | ICS Provider of career guidance and counselling services | $723K | 66 mo ago | Seed | Amrita Dass Founder Director | 1985 | WebflowBootstrapYouTube+16 | — |
| 3 | Acadecraft Provider of crafting content and learning solutions for K-12, higher education, and corporate domains | — | — | Unfunded | Harendra Tomar Founder & CEO | 2011 | PHPCodeIgniterBootstrap+15 | 6 job openings |
| 4 | Admission Panel Platform connecting students with online universities and facilitating the application process | — | — | Unfunded | Pravendra Kumar Founder & CEO | 2022 | Node.jsBootstrapNext.js+15 | — |
| 5 | CareerVeda Provider of medical education consulting firm that offers guidance and support to individuals seeking to… | — | — | Unfunded | Ruchi Sethi Founder | 2024 | ReactReact RouterNginx+5 | — |
| 6 | Classcanyon Study any topic, anytime. Recognized and Funded by Government of India - Skill India Program | Only company… | — | — | — | — | 2021 | — | — |
| 7 | CPS Olympiads Foundation | — | — | Unfunded | Kuldeep Maurya Co-Owner | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 8 | Crossroads Edu Solutions Provider of guidance and counseling for foreign education and scholarships | — | — | Unfunded | Asif Idrees Founder | 2022 | — | — |
| 9 | Digiversal Provider of educational learning solutions | — | — | Unfunded | Sudhanshu Sharma Co-Founder | 2015 | PHPBootstrapNginx+14 | — |
Top 2 Educational Support Services companies in Uttar Pradesh
#1
Series D · Noida, Uttar Pradesh · founded 2011 · 3602 employees$525Mraised▾
Series D · Noida, Uttar Pradesh · founded 2011 · 3602 employees
Provider of educational content, digital learning platforms, and test preparation materials. It offers resources for higher education, English language training, and school libraries. It delivers digital tools, textbooks, and online learning platforms. It provides course materials, digital learning resources, and supplementary content for higher education and test preparation.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 62how this company ranks against its industry peers
Innovation
top 20%Product
top 26%Funding
top 28%Market
top 41%Fin. health
top 44%Growth
top 47%Innovation: 4 product lines
Product: 4 distinct product lines · 3 published apps (370k installs) · Company stage: Series D
Funding: Raised $525M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 3 yrs (0.3/yr) · Last round Series D (May 2023)
Audience (LinkedIn): 13k LinkedIn followers — 9.6% of this cohort's audience
Hiring (LinkedIn): 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Customer Success Specialist
Funding rounds
- May 2023Series D$525M
Investors
Apax, Searchlight Capital, OMERS Private Markets, Arc Capital Development, Scandinavian Private Equity
Tech stack
AlertifyjsAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerAws Certificate ManagerBootstrapCart Functionality
#2
Seed · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh · founded 1985 · 9 employees$723Kraised▾
Seed · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh · founded 1985 · 9 employees
Provider of career guidance and counselling services
Funding rounds
- Feb 2021Unattributed$400K
- Jun 2020Angel$323K
Founders & team
Investors
Bagla Group
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesBootstrapCdnjsCloudflare
Funding & investor landscape
$525.7Mtotal disclosed funding
2companies funded
3disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Prism market signals · India · country-scoped Prism corpus, 6,468,555 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Educational Support Services coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH SIGNALS · India
How research on Education Technology is moving in India
A read on the academic research around Education Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 2,453 India-affiliated papers.
research sentiment over time
202020242026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 67% → 72% across 2020–2026.
top research entities
- Saveetha University59
- G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce College56
- Christ University44
- Chitkara University39
- Lovely Professional University38
leading researchers
Sovanna Huot · Meel, Manav Kumar · Prasad, Arjun · R. N. Ravikumar · S. Aarthi · Tathe, Pratiksha · Tathe, Ishwari · Tathe, Samruddhi
▲
Breakthroughs442 · 18%
▲ 0%→18% share
0 median citations100% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→18% of field), led by Scalability.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Scalability78
- Personalized learning70
- Reinforcement learning63
- Learning analytics60
- Analytics54
Newly emergingScalability 0→78 · Personalized learning 0→70 · Reinforcement learning 0→63
Landmark Metaverse: A Potential Virtual-Physical Ecosystem for Innovative Blended Education and Training · 71 cites
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Advancements1,187 · 48%
▲ 0%→48% share
0 median citations99% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (0%→48% of field), led by Educational technology.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Educational technology2→236
- Blended learning1→114
- Analytics1→95
- Adaptive learning1→76
- Quality (philosophy)1→52
Newly emergingTransformative learning 0→126 · Learning analytics 0→116 · Personalized learning 0→112
Landmark Students’ Perception towards E-Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic in India: An Empirical Study · 367 cites
▼
Concerns587 · 24%
▲ 0%→24% share
0 median citations98% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (0%→24% of field), led by Information and Communications Technology.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Information and Communications Technology1→44
- Learning analytics1→41
- Blended learning1→40
- Analytics1→35
- Experiential learning1→33
Newly emergingEducational technology 0→144 · Higher education 0→90 · Transformative learning 0→73
Landmark Online Learning: A Panacea in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis · 4,931 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · India
Where edtech is researched across India
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Delhi-NCR125 · +0.34
Chennai70 · +0.52
Pune61 · +0.48
Mumbai30 · +0.34
Hyderabad23 · +0.44
Bengaluru17 · +0.48
Kolkata16 · +0.25
Roorkee11 · +0.01
Kharagpur7 · +0.60
Guwahati6 · +0.52
PATENT SIGNAL · India
Who's filing edtech patents in India
India edtech patent filing is accelerating — 44 filings from 53 assignees (2018–2025), led by Tata Consultancy Services, RN Chidakashi TECH, Doshi Payal; annual filings 1→4.
44 filings53 assigneespeak 11/yr2018–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2018–2025)
top patent filers
- Tata Consultancy Services17
- RN Chidakashi TECH5
- Doshi Payal3
- Indiavidual Learning2
- Highradius TECH2
- Medtrainai TECH2
- Kaalbi TECH2
- Sharma Sharda2
Common questions
How many Educational Support Services companies are there in Uttar Pradesh, India?
Radar tracks 39 indexable Educational Support Services companies headquartered in Uttar Pradesh, India that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Educational Support Services companies in Uttar Pradesh, India?
The Educational Support Services companies in Uttar Pradesh, India on this list have raised a combined $525.7M in disclosed equity funding across 2 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Educational Support Services company in Uttar Pradesh, India?
Cengage India is the highest-funded Educational Support Services company in Uttar Pradesh, India, with $525M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Educational Support Services companies in Uttar Pradesh, India are funded?
2 of the 39 Educational Support Services companies in Uttar Pradesh, India on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Educational Support Services unicorns are there in Uttar Pradesh, India?
None of the Educational Support Services companies in Uttar Pradesh, India on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Uttar Pradesh, India Educational Support Services companies?
The most active investors in Uttar Pradesh, India Educational Support Services companies on this list include Apax, Arc Capital Development, Bagla Group, IIM Lucknow Enterprise Incubation Center, OMERS Private Markets.
Riya SenguptaFinancials
Riya reads income statements for fun. She covers the real money in a sector — revenue, growth, who actually earns — and never met a vague claim she didn't want a number for.